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All Jacobs School of Music Events
A select list of events either required (*) or highly recommended for IU composition students:click on event title for detailed information. additions/corrections
click button above to add to Note: All composition majors, minors, and electives are required to attend all concerts marked with an asterisk (*). See Composition Department Attendance Policy. All other listed concerts are to keep you informed of events involving contemporary music you might wish to attend. However, be sure to also take advantage of the wealth of opportunity you have at IU to hear live music from all styles and periods. For a complete listing of all musical events at the IU School of Music, visit the on-line Prelude. additions/corrections Robert Paterson (MM ’01) will be composer-in-residence with the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association for three years, from 2009-2012. He will work with all of VYOA's ensembles, including the Vermont Youth Orchestra and the VYO Chorus, and they will perform his orchestral music for the next couple of seasons. His residency will culminate in a commission for a twenty-minute work for orchestra and chorus which will be premiered in 2012. This residency is sponsored by Meet the Composer and the League of American Orchestras. Robert Paterson is also the winner of the 2010 Cincinnati Camerata Composition Competition with his setting of Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep (text by Mary Frye). The panel chose this work, from his cycle Eternal Reflections, for its expressive choral writing, text painting and imaginatively beautiful textures. Bryan Christian (BM '07) has been awarded a prestigious Fromm Commission from the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University to write a new work for Ensemble U:, a new music group based in Tallinn, Estonia. The foundation will provide a $10,000 commission fee to Bryan, as well as up to $3000 to Ensemble U: to support the premiere performance. For more information, please see a recently released "feature article" about Bryan's music. Martin Kennedy (MM '02) has been awarded the $5000 ASCAP Nissim Prize. Mathew Peterson (MM '08) was also awarded Special Distinction by the jury. Laura Kramer's Different Sorts (2008), duo for violin and guitar, was awarded honorable mention in the 2009 Margaret Blackburn Biennial Composition Competition by the Pittsburg Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Alpha lota. Laura Kramer's Warped (2007-08) for alto saxophone and electronics was selected for performance at the 2010 New Music Festival at Western Illinois Unversity, Macomb, IL, March 8-10, 2010. Robert Manthey (BM, 1999) recently had a performance of his Music for Rocks and Clouds for 14 instruments by the Ives Ensemble on December 19th, 2009 in Amsterdam at the Muziekgebouw aan't IJ. Laura Kramer's Tranquil InDensity (2007) for electronics was selected for performance at the 2010 SEAMUS National Conference at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, April 8-10, 2010. Jason Bahr (DM, 2003) was commissioned by the Choral Arts of Springfield (OH) to write a work for choir, organ, brass quintet, and timpani. The work, Run, Shepherds, Run, was premiered on Nov. 15. Mischa Zupko (DM, 2003) was recently named the winner of the Loudoun Symphony Orchestra's American Composer Competition. In addition to receiving a monetary award, Zupko's work will be performed by the Loudoun Symphony in March, 2010.
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RECENT NEWS - CURRENT STUDENTSEric Lindsay's Coronary Dance for wind ensemble was selected by the Cincinnati Conservatory School of Music for inclusion on the Friday, October 22nd concert of the Midwest Composers Symposium. John Leszczyński's Obsidian Butterfly, with the help from an Encore Grant from the American Composers' Forum, will receive multiple performances from Dr. Jeff Vickers (IU alum & Saxophone Professor at the University of Southern Arkansas). In the next 18 months he will perform the piece a minimum of five times, with performances already scheduled in Arkansas, Florida, Virginia, Texas, and Pennsylvania. Josh Groffman's And Jacob Dreamed... won the Delaware Valley Chorale 2010 Young Musician's Award and will be performed during their 2010 - 2011 season. Also, his piece January Miniatures will be performed at the 2010 June in Buffalo Festival. Eric Lindsay has been selected for the American Composers Orchestra’s Underwood New Music Readings. His orchestra work, Samba Koocho Hairy Boocho, will be performed by ACO on May 20-22. Jonn Sokol’s A Mythology received the 2010 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award. The piece will also receive its world premiere by the MAYO Orchestra on Sunday, May 2 in the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Clint Needham's “the Body Electric” for orchestra has been selected to be performed by the Omaha Symphony at the Omaha Symphony New Music Symposium June 1-3, 2010. Prior to the performance, "the Body Electric" will be workshopped alongside three other works with feedback given from mentor composer Joseph Schwantner and Omaha Symphony Music Director Thomas Wilkins. The concert will take place on June 3 at 7:00pm. Mahlon Berv's Gypsy Fantasy won Co-1st place in the 2010 Community Music School of Webster University Young Composers Competition. The piece will be performed on May 15, 2010 at the university.
Gabriel Lubell's work For the Planet with the Smallest Voice won second prize in the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America(GCNA) biennial composition competition. Natalie Williams' chamber work Three States of Being (composed for the 2007 Hammer and Nail project) will be toured through Germany in April by Professor Stefan Ammer (pno) and Peter Handsworth (cl.) Evan Rees's Music Swims Back to Me will have its world premiere in the finale concert of the Rivers Max Grafe's Moon Cycles will be performed by the East Coast Contemporary Ensemble at the Highpoint Composition Seminar in Woodstock, NY in May.
Eric Nathan (MM) and Clint Needham received two of the Six Charles Ives Scholarships of $7500, given to composition students of great promise. Daniel Seong Hyeon Lee's work "Break Dance!" for Clarinet, Cello and Piano has been awarded the top prize for new composition at the Toronto Kiwanis Music Festival 2010. He has received a scholarship from the Kiwanis Foundation. Brendan Faegre's Mercury Drip will be performed as part of 60x60 at the 2010 International Computer Music Conference in New York, June 1-5. Jonathan Sokol's Twice the Rising Sun was chosen by MAYO (Musical Arts Youth Orchestra) in their 2nd Annual Composition Contest. The premiere is slated for Sunday, May 2 at 3pm at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Ezra Donner's Rust Belt for string quartet has been selected by the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium program committee as a finalist for programming consideration in the new music concert at this year's annual meeting. The concert will take place at the University of Chicago on April 17th. Clint Needham has been selected as a finalist for the 2010 Pacific Symphony Orchestra Competition. The three finalists will have works performed by the Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble on March 14 at Segerstorm Concert Hall. Ryan Chase's the filaments of dance will be performed by the Mexico City Woodwind Quintet at the 2010 Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez in Mexico City, May 23 - June 6, 2010. Clint Needham has been awarded Special Distincion by the jury for this year's ASACP Nissim Prize. Max Grafe's Oak Dances for two bassoons will be performed at the 2010 International Double Reed Society convention at the University of Oklahoma. Sang Mi Ahn's Two Pieces for Violin, and Piano has been awarded second prize at the Sixth International Musical Composition Contest held by the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport. Sang Mi Ahn's Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano will be performed by Trio Haan at Recital Hall, Seoul Arts Center in Seoul, South Korea on April 8, 2010. Diana Syrse was selected to be the resident composer of the project "Cantaré" held by VocalEssence and Phillip Brunelle. Four choral pieces will be presented in Minneapolis in the Basilica in May, 2010. Gordon Williamson has been invited to do a four month residency at the International Studios at Denkmalschmiede Höfgen in Grimma, Germany. Joni Green was awarded the Damien Top Prize for her work Lucretia in this year's ASCAP/Lotte Lehmann Art Song Competition. The Damien Prize is a commission to set a poem by Andrée Brunin to be premiered at the 2010 Albert Roussel International Festival in France. 2010 "DEAN'S PRIZE " COMPOSITION COMPETITION- Winners
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